It is now more than a decade since BHP Billiton, the company responsible for the damage, pulled out leaving its shareholding to the people of PNG. Since then Ok Tedi Mining Limited has remade itself.

Sir Mekere says he fears for the future of the Ok Tedi mine and the flow of benefits to Western Province under government ownership. The latest row began with a report on PNG's EMTV where Peter O ...

The Ok Tedi mine – which BHP co-owned with the PNG government until selling its stake in 2002 – discharged tens of millions of tonnes of mine waste into the local river system during the 1980s ...

The big Ok Tedi mine, in a mountainous region in PNG's west, has been operating since the 1980s but has been blamed for substantial environmental damage along the Fly River because it dumped its ...

The PNG government owns 30 per cent of Ok Tedi which is a major producer of copper concentrate for world smelting markets and in 2004 provided more than a quarter of PNG's export earnings.

In the latest big gold deal, Kingston Resources will receive up to $95 million from the sale of its Misima gold project in PNG to state-backed miner Ok Tedi The acquisition comes amid a wave of M ...